Take this quiz to check your knowledge after completing all training modules in The 7 Wastes of Lean course.
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Question 1 of 30
1. Question
What is “value” as defined by lean?
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Question 2 of 30
2. Question
Why is transportation wasteful?
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Question 3 of 30
3. Question
Which of the following are examples of the waste of transportation?
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Question 4 of 30
4. Question
A brilliant way to eliminate waste involving transportation is to increase batch size, so that each transportation trip can deliver larger numbers of items (this leads to fewer trips overall).
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Question 5 of 30
5. Question
Eliminating the waste of transportation may require physically rearranging your work area—or even your entire facility layout!
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Question 6 of 30
6. Question
Why is inventory wasteful? Check all that apply.
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Question 7 of 30
7. Question
Keeping lots of inventory on hand is good because it helps prevent backorders and disappointing customers.
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Question 8 of 30
8. Question
Which of the follow can help to reduce inventory?
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Question 9 of 30
9. Question
In many cases, all that’s needed to get control of inventory is to use a good software.
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Question 10 of 30
10. Question
What is the waste of motion?
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Question 11 of 30
11. Question
The waste of motion can be eliminated by moving more quickly.
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Question 12 of 30
12. Question
Simplifying a task is a good way to eliminate motion.
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Question 13 of 30
13. Question
Large work areas and workbenches help to reduce motion.
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Question 14 of 30
14. Question
The waste of waiting can apply to anything, including people, machines, material, and information.
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Question 15 of 30
15. Question
Idleness is always wasteful. If you don’t have anything to do, you better start doing something!
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Question 16 of 30
16. Question
The root cause of many delays is not in the place you experience it. Instead, you may have to look upstream to some other process for the source of the delay.
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Question 17 of 30
17. Question
Adding buffer inventory is a preferred way to eliminate the inefficiency caused by waiting or delay.
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Question 18 of 30
18. Question
What are the two definitions for the waste of over processing?
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Question 19 of 30
19. Question
If there is not a clear standard for how to do the job, someone might regularly “overdo it” and do more than what is required. This is over processing.
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Question 20 of 30
20. Question
Sometimes the waste of over processing occurs simply because defects are accepted as normal and therefore tolerated.
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Question 21 of 30
21. Question
A well-intentioned operator individually packages parts as they are produced at their station. The parts are then moved to another department where the work is continued. The first thing the next operator does is remove the packaging because it interferes with the work they need to perform. Is this over processing?
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Question 22 of 30
22. Question
What are the two reasons why over production is wasteful?
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Question 23 of 30
23. Question
Since lean is about making the best use of one’s time and resources, if you complete your work it’s important to stay busy and keep working on something else—even to get ahead of schedule.
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Question 24 of 30
24. Question
Let’s say you have a few process steps (or departments) that do work in batches (there’s obvious inventory backed up in between them). What might you do to reduce over production?
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Question 25 of 30
25. Question
If “the next process is your customer,” which of the follow is true?
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Question 26 of 30
26. Question
Adding inspection is the best way to eliminate defects.
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Question 27 of 30
27. Question
What is a poka yoke?
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Question 28 of 30
28. Question
Behind every defect is a problem that needs to be solved. Only solving the problem will make the defects go away.
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Question 29 of 30
29. Question
How many original wastes are there?
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Question 30 of 30
30. Question
Which of the following are examples of value-adding activities?
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